The former chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Carla del Ponte, expressed regret that the team of chief prosecutor for investigating trafficking in organs in Kosovo in 1999, Clint Williamson, did not find enough evidence to indict persons responsible for these crimes.
BELGRADE - Director of Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said that Serb representatives in the province are ready to participate in the new Kosovo government, but only under certain conditions.
The most important condition is the formation of the community of Serb municipalities in line with the agreement reached by Belgrade and Pristina on April 19, 2013 in Brussels, as well as improving the safety of the citizens, Djuric said in an interview to Belgrade-based weekly Novi Magazin.
Chairman of the Serbian parliament’s Committee on Kosovo- Metohija (KiM) Milovan Drecun said Wednesday that despite extensive documentation on the July 1999 murder of 14 Serb reapers in the village of Staro Gracko, in the municipality of Lipljan, no one had yet been convicted for the crime.
“There is extensive documentation from an investigation conducted by the UNMIK police, and there are persons suspected to have committed the crime,” Drecun told Belgrade-based TV Pink on the occasion of 15 years since the murder of the Serb reapers.
Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric stated that the Peace Park built by the Kosovska Mitrovica Serbs will remain until further notice on the bridge over the Ibar River which connects the northern (Serb-populated) part and the southern (ethnic Albanian) part of the city in northern KiM.
BELGRADE, BRUSSELS - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric will meet with representatives of the interim authorities from Pristina in Brussels Tuesday, and the main topic of the talks will be the situation in the northern KiM city of Kosovska Mitrovica.
Djuric told Belgrade-based TV Pink on Monday that he expected to hear new ideas for the resolution of issues related to the bridge connecting the southern (Albanian) and the northern (Serb) part of the city.
BELGRADE - Clint Williamson, chief prosecutor and head of the EU special investigation team for human organ trafficking during the clashes in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) in 1999, will visit Belgrade on Tuesday and meet with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.
The U.S. prosecutor visited Kosovo on Monday and according to media announcements, he should release his report on potential illegal activities concerning organ trafficking toward the end of the month.
BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric conferred with newly-appointed Ambassador of Great Britain in Belgrade Denis Keefe over the European integration process, and they underscored the exceptional importance of prompt resumption of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
Djuric and Keefe agreed that it is very important to continue the implementation of the agreements reached within the Brussels accord, adding that the progress should be sought through practical steps, the Serbian government Office for KiM released.
BELGRADE - The internally displaced people (IDPs) from Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) should be offered a chance to return to their homes, although a majority of them who have had the status for the past 15 years now want to stay in central Serbia, officials stated at the gathering organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on Friday.
According to the UNHCR data from 2011, the status of a large number of IDPs from KiM has not been resolved and among them, the Roma are living in the most difficult conditions.
ZUBIN POTOK - A protest under the slogan “We are all the same, who of us is next?” will be held in Zubin Potok, northern Kosovo, on Monday over the ungrounded threats of arrests to Serbs, the management team for establishing a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija has stated.
Zubin Potok Mayor Stevan Vulovic told Tanjug that members of Kosovo police tried last week to serve him with a summons, issued by a EULEX prosecutor, but he was not at home.